Finally saw the last episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Getting choked up over the fate of a ship makes you feel sane, let me tell you. Not even the people on the ship, most of them I was kind of ambivalent about their fate, it was more a point of interest than anything else, but the actual ship itself? I totally got misty when she did that buck and shudder after her final jump. And its not like you didn’t know it was coming to extent — the very first episode of the series, Galactica’s 50 years old and about to be decommissioned and turned into a war museum. Its a frickin’ miracle the ship didn’t fall apart in the episode where they were jumping every 33 minutes. Didn’t stop me from being all “Oh, Galactica!,” though. I’m going to blame four season’s worth of Tigh and Adama and half the crew talk about her like she was an actual living being. If ever the love of one’s people brought an object to life, that ship would be it.

We will not talk about me actually crying over the Adama/Roslin wrap-up. Or about me crying again while telling my mother about it. I mean…ack. They were my favorite couple before they were technically even a couple. I could not give a shit about Lee and Kara, or really Kara and anyone, and Baltar is such a slimy ass I don’t know how he ever got play, and the mutually-destructive blargh of Tigh and Helen is just sick, but oh. Oh, the quiet, devoted sweetness of Adama and Roslin. TV needs more couples like them at any age, but the fact that they were both older made it even more awesome. And then the fly-over so she could see the deer! And he’s talking about their future like she hasn’t been dying for the last four years! And then the ring, and burying her on the cliff where he’s going to build her cabin, and “the view will be heavenly, just like you.” I’m not tearing up just thinking about it, and you can’t prove that I am. *sniff* Shut up.

I’m not entirely sure about that final scene, though. I mean, I’m totally okay with them landing on our Earth 150,000 years ago, they are our evolutionary jump, blah blah blah. Its just the “angel” versions of Baltar and Six that bug me. I mean, they had to be the angel versions, right, because even if iSix could survive that long, Baltar couldn’t, and the guy who’s shoulder they were reading over didn’t seem to notice either of them, so…. I don’t know, I don’t really think it added anything. Generally speaking, if you’ve done your fable right, you don’t actually need to spell out the moral like that, and doing so only lessens the impact. And if they just wanted to drive home that yes, it was our world, I think it would have been better served by just pulling back from the magazine article to show Six actually holding it, and like, she buys it and smiles and walks off into New York City. Not only would it have confirmed it, but it would have left you wondering if all the Cylons were still walking among us, watching and making sure we didn’t fuck up this time. I think it would’ve had a better punch.

All in all, though, I think it was a decent wrap-up. And I kind of want to gather the whole series and watch it in a big block to see if I better absorbed it, because holy crap, a lot happened on that show.